Tom Yum Seafood Soup Recipes

HOMEMADE TOM YUM SOUP

Steps:

• Combine vegetable broth and shrimp in a pot over medium-high heat. Bring to a low boil for 10 minutes, then lower heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove shrimp from the broth and remove and discard shells; set shrimp aside.
• Add lime juice, lime pulp, chile peppers, lemon grass, tom yum paste, fish sauce, sugar, chile sauce, and ginger slices to the broth; cook for 10 minutes. Remove chile peppers, lemongrass, and ginger slices with a slotted spoon and discard. Add cooked shrimp and remove from the heat.
• Ladle soup into bowls and top with mushroom slices and green onions.

TOM YUM (HOT & SOUR) SOUP WITH PRAWNS

Steps:

• Bring the stock to a boil in a medium-sized saucepan. Add the lemongrass, galangal, coriander roots and lime leaves, then simmer for 2 mins.
• Add the prawns, fish sauce, chillies and lime juice, then return to the boil. Taste and adjust the seasoning with either more lime juice or fish sauce, then garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

TOM YUM SEAFOOD SOUP

Steps:

• Bring about 2 liters of water to a boil in a medium saucepan.
• Pour another 2 liters of water into a separate pot and bring to a boil (for flash steaming the seafood).
• While waiting for the water to boil, chop up the galangal, lemongrass, tomato, cilantro, scallops, shrimp, squid, snapper and mussels.
• Once the water in the first pot comes to boil, add the lime leaves, mushrooms, chiles, galangal and lemongrass and stir. Immediately after, add the fish sauce, lime juice, prik pao and sugar. Let the broth simmer.
• Flash-steam the seafood in the other pot for approximately 1 minute. Add the seafood to the main pot, stir and boil for about 5 minutes.
• Ladle the soup into bowls and top with some tomato and cilantro.